History Main / TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth

!!!(Not yet) ** Subverted with [[spoiler:Matty]], who loses his innocence hard before his gruesome demise.
* Feferi Peixes from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is a very idealistic character who wanted to create a more equal and just Troll society. When her genocidally {{Fantastic Racis|m}}t would-be suitor realizes that she will never be interested in him, he [[IfICantHaveYou murders her]] before she has a chance to put any of her plans into effect.
* The epilogue of ''Webcomic/{{Darken}}'' reveals that the HeroAntagonist Tyr, [[spoiler:[[CainAndAbel the Abel to Gort's Cain]],]] disappears from his sickbed [[spoiler:after being exorcised of a Prince of Hell's [[DemonicPossession possession]]]], leaving nothing but a long white feather. Since he's previously seen in the company of actual angels and {{Physical God}}s, one can assume Heaven has a good retirement policy.
* In ''Webcomic/TheWarriorReturns'', Dohoon Lim is a teenager who sacrifices decades of his lifespan and suffers RapidAging without regret to save the Time World. He's a loving son to his parents and a selfless hero who gave up what few years he had left in an attempt to create a safer world for his family.

* Susannah Julia Von Wincott from ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'' falls under this trope. Can almost be called the MessianicArchetype. It is said that she was too pure for the Shoushu, the BigBad of the show, to possess her. Thus, making Yuuri the last hope. She sacrificed her life trying to help injured soldiers.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'':

** Seiko Kimura is the former SHSL Pharmacist who, despite being part of the radical faction of the Future Foundation, is willing to treat her ideological rivals wounds. Despite her creepy appearance and demeanor, she is actually a very caring person with zero self-esteem who simply wants to be useful to everyone. While she does end up chasing and trying to kill her former friends Ruruka and Sonosuke, it's out of long-repressed anger at Ruruka's apparent "betrayal" in high school and how she used her throughout their friendship, and Seiko ends up giving up without harming them. As the third sleeping phase approaches she curls up in a hallway and thinks about how all she wanted was to have one true friend. She had actually loved Ruruka dearly and still wished that they could somehow make up. As she is knocked out by the sleeping drug, the last thing that she thinks about is the deaths of [[spoiler: Bandai]] and [[spoiler: Chisa]] and how she was unable to help them. [[spoiler: She never wakes up, becoming the third victim after being brutally crucified, meaning that she died feeling worthless and thinking that she was unable to help anyone.]] For added insult, in the finale, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the seemingly dead Kyoko actually survived due to taking a cure for the poison in the NG code bracelets that Seiko made during the killing game. She died not knowing that she had actually saved someone.]]

* Spoofed in ''LightNovel/FateZero'''s Einzbern Consultation Room extra. Lancer learns from Irisviel that the source of his suffering was not actually from [[BlessedWithSuck his curse]]. As it turns out, being noble [[MrFanservice fangirl bait]] voiced by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa in an "[[Creator/GenUrobuchi Urobutcher]]" series makes his likelihood of dying horribly and tragically 170%.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'' does this with both Misuzu Kamio and Michiru.

* It happened multiple times in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' for [[spoiler:all of Elly's past incarnation selves, a gentle and sweet nature girl who always sacrifice her life for Fei, causing endless grief for him. Her death as 'Mother' Sophia 500 years prior to the game's storyline was a great lost to the world and is still remembered fondly by future generations]]

* It happened multiple times in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' for [[spoiler:all of Elly's past incarnation selves, a gentle and sweet nature girl who always sacrifice herself for Fei, causing endless grief for him. Her death as 'Mother' Sophia 500 years prior to the game's storyline was a great lost to the world and is still remembered fondly by future generations]]

* It happened multiple times in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' for [[spoiler:all of Elly's past incarnation selves, a gentle and sweet nature girl who always sacrifice herself for Fei, causing endless grief for him. Her death as 'Mother' Sophia 500 years prior to the game's storyline had the greatest impact to the world]]

* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Nemik is by far the kindest and most idealistic of the rebel group on Aldhani, caring for and trusting people while being dedicated to the ideals of freedom from tyranny and brutal oppression rather than fighting the Empire out of a vicious desire for revenge against the Empire for killing family and loved ones. He dies the most drawn out and painful death of the group, just to make it that much more gut wrenching.

* [[spoiler: Ofelia]] in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' [[spoiler: who refused to hurt her baby brother and decided to face the wrath of her evil stepfather who coldly shoots her in the stomach.]]

%%* Sister Agnes in ''Agnes of God'' surmises that her immaculately-conceived (?) daughter is this.

%% * [[DeathByNewberyMedal Neil Perry]] in ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''.
%%* [[spoiler: Trevor]] in ''Film/PayItForward''

* "The Little Match Girl" is this. She is a little homeless girl who dies after burning up all her matches, each one causing her to see a pleasant vision of a life she will never have.

This trope often overlaps with WhatMeasureIsANonHuman, IJustWantToBeNormal, PinocchioSyndrome, and some variant of GentleGiant, in characters that are created by MadScience or even [[ScienceIsBad regular science]]. In this type of story, the artificial creature is too ''innocent'' for this sinful Earth and is at risk of [[HumansAreBastards being corrupted by it]]. Sometimes, instead of dying, the "monster" chooses voluntary exile.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' with Kenny who is arguably the most down-to-earth and morally centered of the four boys and he, of course, gets killed in nearly every episode of the first five seasons and nowadays once a season.

* In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', [[spoiler:Magneto has married a young woman and had a daughter with her. Both are killed by accident by cops who have arrived to take him, [[CrusadingWidower leading him to kill the whole squad and eventually relapse into villainy]].]]

'''Because this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, beware of [[Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers umarked spoilers]]!'''

* [[spoiler: Hare]] in episode 15 of ''Anime/GuiltyCrown''. When a group of students fears they'll be allowed to die because their voids aren't useful enough, they go out to try and get more vaccine from a hospital and prove they aren't useless. Shu and [[spoiler: Hare]] head out to stop them so they won't get killed pointlessly. Before Shu can get them to listen to reason, they are found and attacked by the Antibodies. Souta, having been among the group going to the hospital, asks [[spoiler: Hare]] to use her void in order to [[spoiler:[[MrFixIt "heal" a car]]]] so they can escape. She gets targeted by [[KillEmAll Daryl]], Shu sees this, and he dives to save her. They both get caught in an explosion and get badly hurt. [[spoiler: Hare chooses to use her void to heal Shu ''while she's bleeding out of her stomach'' and talks about a picture book she read once about a "kind king" who tries to make everyone happy, but his kindness ends up ruining his kingdom and angering his people. she says she liked him despite this and loved Shu because he was similarly kind to a fault. she then dies and starts to crystallize, only completely disappearing after Shu wakes up to see her dead body.]] What helps prove how good she is is that the sight of her fading from existence causes Shu's worst HeroicBSOD yet, sends him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and quite possibly (at time of writing) led to a StartOfDarkness in Shu as he seems to lose all hope and kindness.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': The Platinum [[PeopleOfHairColor caste]] of Alderode die of old age at 30. The popular explanation for this is that Plats are holy enough to be on their final {{Reincarnation}} cycle and the Gods cannot bear to be away from them for long. In practice, however, they're no more or less moral than the other castes.

** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: AccidentalMurder but Quent accidentally shot Toboe, ]]]] and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.

** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: AccidentalMurder but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]] and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.

** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler: AccidentalMurder but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]]]] and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.

** Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, [[spoiler:but Quent accidentally shot Toboe,]] and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent [[spoiler:(who had then been shot by Darcia)]] dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme.

* Galahad of Myth/KingArthur's court. No sooner does this sinless, invincible young [[MessianicArchetype Christ figure]] achieve the Quest of the Grail than he is taken up to Heaven.

** [[spoiler:Shirley, who serves as Lelouch's most obvious tie to his civilkan life. Kind, supportive, and always wanting to help him, Shirley's death signifies a change in Lelouch that also leads into the Zero Requiem.]]